Data Science Associate Consultant

About ZS Associates - ZS Associates Inc (http://www.zsassociates.com) is a global professional services firm specializing in sales and marketing consulting, analytics, technology and operations. Established in 1983, by Andris Zoltners and Prabha Sinha of Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, ZS has been recognized around the world for its deep expertise, client impact and implementation capabilities for Sales and Marketing issues. ZS Associates has over 2,500 professionals globally, distributed across 20 offices servicing clients in pharmaceuticals, consumer products, energy, high-tech, insurance and medical products, to name a few.

About the ZS Associates, India Capability and Expertise Centers - ZS has two Capability and Expertise centers in Pune and Gurgaon. With over 1,600+ employees, they have witnessed dramatic growth. Today over 60% of ZS's people are based in the Capability and Expertise Centers. Our teams within the Centers work in conjunction with onshore colleagues to deliver all types of sales and marketing projects to our clients. The centers primarily support projects for US and Europe clients, in the areas of Business Consulting, Business Operations and Business Technology.

Business Consulting Group Overview

ZS Associates' Business Consulting group delivers solutions to a broad spectrum of marketing and sales challenges. We also help our clients transform their marketing and sales organizations to implement these solutions. Our solutions and recommendations are based in rigorous research and analysis underpinned by deep expertise and thought leadership

Job Description:

ZS pioneers in sales force and marketing analytics - applying optimization techniques to sales force and marketing investment problems. We have grown significantly and are now recognized global leaders in sales and marketing consulting.

A key enabler of our services is leveraging data in delivering client solutions. The data available about customers is getting richer and the problems that our customers are trying to answer continue to evolve. In our endeavor to stay ahead in providing solutions to these evolving complex problems, ZS has set up a Data Scientist track which has three major focus areas:

- Research the evolving datasets and advanced analytical techniques to develop new offerings/solutions

- Deliver client impact by collaboratively implementing these solutions

- Provide thought leadership by developing the ZS Point of View in this space

The Data Science Associate Consultant will play a critical role in designing, developing and implementing analytical techniques on large, complex, structured and unstructured data sets (including big data) to help client make better decisions in sales and marketing space, with guidance from Data Science leadership.

Specific responsibilities include:

Client impact:

- Developing advanced algorithms that solve problems of large dimensionality in a computationally efficient and statistically effective manner

- Implementing statistical and data mining techniques e.g. hypothesis testing, machine learning, and retrieval processes on a large amount of data to identify trends, figures and other relevant information

- Collaborating with clients and other ZS stakeholders to effectively integrate and communicate analysis findings

- Providing guidance and project management support to the Associates on the team

Research & firm contribution:

- Evaluating emerging datasets and technologies that may contribute to our analytical platform

- Owning the development of select assets/accelerators for efficient scaling of capability

- Contributing to the thought leadership of the firm by helping in researching the evolving topics and publishing them

Qualifications:

- Educational background of PhD in Computer Science (OR Statistics) from a premier institute

Key competencies:

- Knowledge of big data/ advanced analytics concepts and algorithms - text mining, social listening, recommender systems, predictive modeling, etc.

- Knowledge of programming : Java/Python/R

- Exposure to tools/platforms : Hadoop eco system and DB systems

- Agile project planning and project management skills

- Excellent communication skills

- Domain knowledge/expertise (Healthcare/Travel/Hi-tech/Insurance) is preferred

Approach to work:

- Research focused mindset with strong attention to detail

- Excellent critical thinking and problem solving skills

- High motivation, good work ethic and maturity

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